Multilingual lexicon of toponyms

WikiTopoPl

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The multilingual lexicon of toponyms (WikiTopoPl) contains a list of over 155,000 polish geographical proper names (countries, cities, regions, hydronyms, etc) and their equivalents in Bulgarian, German, modern Greek, English, Croatian, Hungarian, Romanian, Slovak and Serbian. These data (whenever available) have been automatically extracted from the open encyclopedia Wikipedia. The Wikipedia categories attached to the lexicon entries have been mapped to a short list of succinct categories compliant with Prolexbase, a multilingual ontology of proper names.